Power, Authority, Legitimacy & Resistance¶

Human Worlds

What you will develop¶

Distinguish forms of power and explain why rules are obeyed, contested, evaded, or transformed.

Before you begin¶

Recorded prerequisites:

• Social Evidence, Interpretation & Comparative Method
• Interaction, Identity, Norms & Influence
• Strategic Interaction, Bargaining & Cooperation
• Networks, Diffusion, Brokerage & Segregation
• Collective action and the commons
• Organizations, Bureaucracy, Professions & Delegation

Study and practice¶

This is a study outline. A complete practice sequence is not yet available.

• coercion
• dependence
• agenda control
• preference shaping
• authority
• legitimacy
• domination
• exit
• voice
• resistance

Coercion, dependence & resource power¶

Reconstruct the mechanism, apply it to an unseen case, produce a counterexample/boundary, identify evidence, and defend under changed assumptions.

Agenda power & preference shaping¶

Reconstruct the mechanism, apply it to an unseen case, produce a counterexample/boundary, identify evidence, and defend under changed assumptions.

Authority, legitimacy & obedience¶

Reconstruct the mechanism, apply it to an unseen case, produce a counterexample/boundary, identify evidence, and defend under changed assumptions.

Exit, voice, resistance & contestation¶

Reconstruct the mechanism, apply it to an unseen case, produce a counterexample/boundary, identify evidence, and defend under changed assumptions.

Intended demonstration¶

Competing power models + boundary case + defense

This describes the intended standard, not a validated assessment or a claim of mastery.

Reading options¶

Assigned readings, where available, appear in the practice sequence above. These additional recommendations are not all required reading.

• Power: A Radical View
• Authority

Continue¶

Connections above reflect recorded prerequisites, not a compulsory calendar.

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